Got 60 miles a gallon with my diesel, manual transmission jetta.
...freewheeling down a hill get can hairy. Also, on a steep hill you likely would have to ride your brakes to stay anywhere near the speed limit. In any case, you are not saving much gas, as the engine is running on a closed throttle anyway.
I'm curious about this.
First, there's nothing dangerous about freewheeling, as long as you don't let your speed get too high, right?
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However, if I shift into neutral, I gain speed. ...
We also ran (at least one) oxygen generator that hydrolized pure water (distilled from seawater).
Hint: the Navy still makes oxygen the old-fashioned way (by splitting oxygen & hydrogen) and propulsion still comes from splitting atoms.
I know what you guys did with the O2 nords. Added it to carbon.
What did you do with the hydrogen?
Not propulsion surely.
Little Hindenbergs to fly around in the submarine to have some fun?
Yep, everyone did. Probably still does.We discharged it overboard on my boat.
Yep, everyone did. Probably still does.
We used to get excited about the Soviets being able to track dissolved H2 in the water, along with dissolved CO2 and floating trash. That used to make life particularly nasty when you were [-]on station or "in the vicinity of" a reported datum[/-] conducting extended at-sea training evolutions in international waters...
Hey, Gumby, speaking of excitement, I read a short article in Scientific American the other day gushing about a newly-discovered chemical that absorbs CO2 from industrial smokestack discharges: monoethanolamine. Hopefully it's not hazardous!